The Last Attempt
Posted By Chris Engelbrecht on 16 March 2007
Scuba Safety diver Pascal Bernabe is sourced for eyewitness testimony from the bottom plate, and Wiky Orjales from 90 meters. Orjales serves, too, as an interpreter of the Santeria theme which runs through the book. Voodoo. Pipin is a devout believer of the voodoo religion of his native Cuba. The red bandana on Audrey Mestre's wrist on that deadly morning is conspicuous in video footage and stills seen, by now, all over the world. The Last Attempt provides new insight into the bandana's meaning and links to other Santeria signs and signals.
Carlos Serra's The Last Attempt is a masterpiece. The author presents himself as a man who has lost everything when he broke with Pipin, everything save a duty to tell the truth about Audrey Mestre's death. Serra lost his job and his home. His wife divorced him. He assures the reader that it is not, however, his intent to judge Pipin but rather to tell his story and let the reader judge him. The Last Attempt is a chronological account of how he has reached his conclusions, and in what order. This has ended up as something of a detective's novel, but without a decisive ending. Meticulous as he is, Carlos Serra cannot be omniscient.
The reader, indeed, must write the verdict.
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